Improvement in woven cloth



UNITED STATES PATENT GEEIGEL ALFRED RUZ, OF GAILLON, FRANCE, ASSIGNOR-TO SIMON H. SIBLEY, OF

WARREN, MASSACHUSETTS. i

IMPROVEMENT IN WvOVEN CLOTH.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 116,498, dated June 27, 1871.

. to the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is designed to illustrate upon an enlarged scale the appearance of the face of my improved cloth as it comes from the loom. Fig. 2 is to illustrate a transverse section of the same as it comes from the loom; and Fig. 3 is to illustrate a transverse section of the same after it has been gigged.

The object of my invention is to produce a fulled cloth having a frizzed or knobbed surface of any desired design, and wherein the nap from which said frizzed or knobbed surface is formed can be produced without injury to the body of the cloth by gigging up the threads of which said body is formed, as has been heretofore practiced.

My improved cloth is made by arranging the harnesses of the loom so as to weave a backing or body, A, of rm cloth, and upon the top of said backing or body A to weave in a series of facelilling threads, which project from the backing A in skips or loops B, a sufficient portion of the face-filling threads being woven into the backing to hold them securely in position. The series of loops B, in this instance, forms ridges upon the Vface of the cloth, as shown; but they may be woven into any other design, if desired, with equal facility, to suit the taste or fancy of the manufacturer. The cloth, after being taken from the loom, is fulled, and afterward gigged until all of the loops B of the face-lling threads are and worked into aheavy nap, C, while the threads y from which the back or bodyA is formed remain perfect, since they are not torn or cut by the gig.

The heavy knap (l, produced by gigging the ends of the separated loops B, is then sheared to reduce the surface to a uniform length, after which the napped surface of the cloth is subjected to the action of a frizzing-machine to work and twist the nap into small knobs or curls, the size thereof depending upon the size of the threads used in the face lilling, while their relative arrangement will depend upon the design in which the loops B .are woven into the cloth. I'n making the cloth with diagonal rows of loops, B, when the latter are separated and their ends worked into knobs or curls, as stated, the lines dividing the rows of knobs are changed from the lines D, between the rows of loops B, to lines E, which pass through the centers of the rows of loops. This is owing to the fact that, when the ends of the threads are frizzed, those portions ofthe nap of two rows nearest the binding or locking-threads F are frizzed together, and thus cover and pro-` tect the threads F, which otherwise would be exposed and subjected to injurious wear.

Having described my improved cloth, what I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as an improved article of manufacture, is

A fulled cloth, the surface of which consists of uniformly-arranged knobs orfrizzed projections formed from the ends of cut and raised facefilling threads, introduced as and for the purposes set forth.

ALFRED RUZ.

Witnesses:

Tiros. H. DODGE, CEAS. H. BURLEIGH. 

